01F01CC96A6A20738725858200744B77 Hearing Summary

Minority Leader Neville and Majority Leader Garnett, co-prime bill sponsors, presented Senate Bill 20-186. The bill updates existing statutory provisions to conform with new constitutional requirements related to congressional and state redistricting.  It creates two new accounts in the Legislative Cash Fund (fund), the Congressional Redistricting Account and the Legislative Redistricting Account, and transfers $1 million from the fund into each account for the purposes of funding the work of the commissions.  Finally, the bill directs Legislative Council Staff and the Office of Legislative Legal Services to assign individuals to staff the redistricting commissions through a number of nonstatutory provisions.

No one testified in person on the bill.  No written testimony was submitted to the committee.

Majority Leader Garnett and Minority Leader Neville made concluding remarks about the bill.